Tuesday, July 17, 2018

SCOTUS, Trump & "The Right To Petition"


    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    "The right to petition is protected by the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights.
    In the United States the right to petition is guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which specifically prohibits Congress from abridging "the right of the people...to petition the Government for a redress of grievances".
    Although often overlooked in favor of other more famous freedoms, and sometimes taken for granted, many other civil liberties are enforceable against the government only by exercising this basic right. The right to petition is regarded as fundamental in some republics, such as the United States, as a means of protecting public participation in government."
    MY NOTES
    There are those who attack President Trump's use of suggestions, for judicial nominations, from the Federalist Society as being enslavement to a "far right organization".
  • Those suggestions are, in fact, an example of the execution of the above-cited and most basic constitutional right.
  • The "grievance" addressed is the making-of-law and amending the Constitution from the bench by those judges who would take that power from The People as executed through their democratically elected representatives.

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